I found a couple of packages (and I made that mistake myself before) that use !use instead of ! use when checking for a disabled USE flag. Since this is a likely easy to spot mistake, maybe repoman should be looking for that before commit.
Could you provide specific examples?
If I understand the description in comment #0 correctly, then you can find examples by running: find /usr/portage/ \( -name '*.ebuild' -o -name '*.eclass' \) -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Hn '!use\>' This would seem to be confirmed by a change Diego made to media-sound/pulseaudo-0.9.17.ebuild in September 2009, with the commit message "Fix !use missing whitespace." For the tree on my system, the only package so flagged now is net-mail/dbmail: if !use postgres && !use mysql && !use sqlite3; then myconf="${myconf} --with-sqlite" ; fi
repoman support has been removed per bug 835013. Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.
